Pleasant Grove, Utah — October 1, 2020 — Alianza, Inc., the leading cloud communications platform for service providers, today announced the acquisition of Message Hopper, a software company delivering a cloud-native SMS solution for businesses. Message Hopper’s Business Text Messaging application…
Mobile data usage is at least 96 times higher today than it was just 10 years ago, according to a new report about U.S. wireless industry growth from industry association CTIA. Annual mobile data consumption jumped from 388 billion megabytes…
CHICAGO (April 21, 2020) — U.S. Cellular (NYSE: USM) with Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) support, began boosting mobile broadband capacity to customers in parts of Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, New Hampshire, Maine and North Carolina, due to increased demand for data usage during…
The four major wireless carriers have formed a joint venture to be known as the Cross Carrier Messaging Initiative, or CCMI, to provide what they characterize as a next-generation messaging service. The Cross Carrier Messaging Initiative (CCMI) from AT&T, Sprint,…
The FCC’s first ever report on illegal robocalls, including spoofed robocalls, revealed that since 2010 the agency has proposed or imposed money forfeitures of $245,923,500 against violators or apparent violators of the Truth in Caller ID Act or the Telephone…
The ability to send text messages to 911 anywhere in the U.S. could enhance public safety answering points’ (PSAPs’) ability to respond to emergency situations – and could be particularly important when the person contacting the PSAP is unable to…
Feeling they may be missing some important news, favorite entertainment or great shopping deal, more than half the consumers in a global Nielsen mobile commerce survey (53%) may be subject to cellphone separation anxiety. In addition, two-thirds agreed that electronic…
Young people use mobile devices a lot, so much so that half of teens in a new teen mobile use survey said they suffer from mobile device addiction. Six in 10 parents (59%) agree, according to the new market research…
AT&T is using a cloud approach to support a landline-to-mobile text capability launched yesterday. The company is positioning the offering, dubbed AT&T Landline Texting, as a more convenient and efficient way for businesses to communicate with customers, explained Igor Glubochansky,…
Americans have become a nation obsessed with mobile phones and multi-tasking, according to Deloitte’s fifth annual 2015 Global Mobile Consumer Survey. Americans in aggregate look at their smartphones 8 billion times a day. Furthermore, they’re doing so while engaging in…
The number of mobile voice calls made by Americans of all ages and ethnic groups has changed by less than one call per day on average over the past year, according to new market research from Nielsen. That should lay…
Revenue from sales of mobile business enterprise applications will exceed $40.5 billion this year and continue increasing to reach $63 billion by 2020, according to Strategy Analytics. Ongoing adoption and use of mobile business applications is fundamentally changing the role…
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